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My Last.FM neighbourhood

October 24, 2004

It seems, upon initial inspection, that the vast majority of my Last.FM music neighbourhood – i.e. people who have the same taste in music as I do – are male and between 19 and 21. I am not quite sure what this says about me, but I prefer to think that it means I can […]

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I never knew Joi had this much power

October 24, 2004

I mean, I knew he had the ear of some important people, but I didn't realise he was quite so powerful. I bow down in awe, Oh Great One:

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YASN without a point (and two with)

October 23, 2004

In 1980 a small toy invented by Erno Rubik, a Hungarian obsessed with 3D geometry, became a smash hit. The almost impossible to solve Rubik's Cube was everywhere – in the shops, on TV, in the record books, but mainly in bits on frustrated children's floors. I, like millions of other kids, had a Rubik's […]

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Late to the Flickr party

October 20, 2004

I signed up for a Flickr account ages ago – before I'd even moved CnV from Blog-City to Blogware so it must have been early March – but although I've been signed up for months, it's taken me until now to start uploading photos. The impetus was wanting to post photos from last weekend's drinks […]

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Jumping the Ladder

October 18, 2004

Until today, the whole car-crashed undead zombie that is my lovelife made no sense to me, or anyone else for that matter. Not alive, but not actually dead either, it just limped along, losing limbs as a matter of course and getting progressively fuglier and fuglier. Today, however, I was pointed in the direction of […]

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Three links

October 14, 2004

Piratemonkeys – Another one for those of you who don't like Mary Sues. (Thanks Kevin.) As Simon says, IT's b0rked Tyson the Skateboarding Bulldog. Way cool. (Thanks Simon.)

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Search terms

October 10, 2004

I like to keep an eye on which search terms are successfully used to find CnV. For the last few months the most common by far has been 'William Shatner Common People', or some such combination. The recent release of Duran Duran's single Sunrise has prompted a bunch of Durannies to start searching for terms […]

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iTunes, MusicBrainz and metadata

October 3, 2004

So, I finally wiped my second hard drive which had – until the Great OS Clean Install of 04 – been my primary HD, and copied all my music files over to it. All my data files, every single one of them, had been copied over the network to another machine before the reinstall, then […]

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How long does it take to get a new term into Google and, at the same time, improve your ranking for the search term 'Simon Pegg'?

October 1, 2004

Oooh, less than three days. Three days ago, if you had searched on 'egogooglebombing' you would have come up with no search results at all. Now you get seven. I feel perversely proud of that. If you had, at the same time, searched Google for 'Simon Pegg' you would not have found me anywhere in […]

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Egogooglebombing Simon Pegg

September 28, 2004

Looking for a transcription of Shaun of the Dead last night, I discovered that I rank #2 for a Google search on the term 'shaun of the dead transcription', although somewhat mistakenly Google links to one of my old Lawrence Lessig posts which has the word 'transcription' in it. This set me wondering, so I […]

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Design In-Flight – out now!

July 1, 2004

Design In-Flight is a new design mag, expertly put together by Andy Arikawa, who says: Design In-Flight is a new PDF magazine targeted to graphic design professionals and web developers. Design In-Flight strives to both educate and entertain and is recommended reading for anyone currently involved in – or looking to enter – graphic design, […]

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SuwBot!

June 23, 2004

At last, I have my own bot on IRC! Thanks to Morbus for coding SuwBot for me. Here's a taster: *** SuwBot joined jibot: Milords, Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome SuwBot * Suw laughs *** Gardner joined jibot: Gardner is in the suburbs of Philadelphia [snipped] SuwBot: Gardner! Suw: yay!! Morbus: yay, it works. Suw: […]

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Gmail invites

June 21, 2004

I have three more. Usual story. But instead of continually updating this blog, I'll put a wee 'Gmail Status' in the sidebar. Keep your eye on it!

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More Gmail invites to give away

June 19, 2004

If ya want one, email me. UPDATE: Two left! UPDATE: All gone!

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New FireFox RSS reader

June 17, 2004

I've just updated FireFox to version 0.9 and downloaded an RSS reader extension. I love FireFox – so much sexier than IE, so much less bloated than Netscape, it really is a good browser and if you haven't converted yet, I strongly recommend that you do so. (Please see update below.) I wish I could […]

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